Resources for Engineering and Science Ethics

This section houses and provides access to all the OEC materials. It is searchable by type of resource, topic, field, and author and other publication information. A search by resource, then topic or field, reduces the number of entries identified.

In 2014, researchers and students at University of Bergen questioned the university's research cooperation with the nation’s oil industry, Statoil. The rector asked the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) for advice, which it provided in a public report.

Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information ...

Outlines the ethical responsibilities of those who teach, research, study or practice criminal justice. This will link you to the latest version of the code in the Online Codes of Ethics Collection, which includes earlier versions of this code. You can also see other social sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

"The National Academies’ Science, Technology, and Law Program held a one-day workshop to explore the mounting tensions in the federal regulatory process between the need to provide access to research data and the need to protect the integrity of the research process. The workshop ...

AMA's Code of Medical Ethics includes the basic duties of a physician. the AMA Medical Ethics Page includes a large number of opinions on a number of pressing medical ethics topics, as well as a history of the code.

This set of guidelines includes policies on the publication of scientific research and a process for investigating scientific misconduct. You can also see other physical and biological sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

This code discusses AGI members' ethical conduct towards others, research ethics, and good publication and authorship practices. You can also see other physical and environmental sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

This will link you to the latest version of the code in the Online Codes of Ethics Collection, which includes earlier versions of this code. You can also see other computer and information sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

This code includes the principles for authors and an explanation of the ethical review process.This will link you to the latest version of the code in the Online Codes of Ethics Collection, which includes earlier versions of this code. You can also see other physical and biological sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

This document details the ethical duties of members of this society, as well a seeking to improve the public climate for, understanding of, and respect for the use of statistics. This will link you to the latest version of the code. You can also see other physical and biological sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

A software developer designs a software that screens the résumés of candidates applying for a job at her company. She later discovers that the software may be having a disparate impact on minority communities. She brings the issue up with her boss, who is reluctant to change the software.

Discusses, among other issues, the protecting of archaeological sites and antiques from illegal trade. This will link you to the latest version of the code in the Online Codes of Ethics Collection, which includes earlier versions of this code. You can also see other physical and biological sciences codes of ethics in this collection.

A bibliography of guidelines, books, reports and journal articles looking at the use and ethical issues associated with big data in computer science, the information sciences, life and environmental sciences, and the social sciences.

In 2013, Melissa Gymrek, Amy McGuire, David Golan, Eran Halperin, and Yaniv Erlich published an article describing how they re-identified almost 50 individuals from “anonymized” data in a genomic database from the 1000 Genomes Project. Their goal was to show the vulnerability of genomic databases to this sort of manipulation. The case opens discussion of sharing genomic data and protecting privacy.

This class plan gives a selection of exercises out of which an instructor may build a class session around issues concerning the development of big data resources in genetics and genomics such as the materials being compiled by 23 and Me. The materials are suitable for upper division undergraduate courses in bioethics or the life and environmental sciences.

This collection of resources on Big Data is part of a larger collection of Life and Environmental Science ethics education resource sets on ethics of emerging biotechnologies , big data in the life sciences , human enhancement , and conservation and biodiversity . Doctoral students from ...

Bio 611: Ethics of Big Data in the Life Sciences is a syllabus for a one credit graduate course. Taught at Arizona State University, Bio 611 attracts a mix of natural science and humanities graduate students and does not assume students will have substantial experience in ethics. Beyond exploration of the ethics of big data, the seminar aims to develop the ability of students to analyze ethical issues through the incorporation of case discussion and case writing.